J. Biochem, 1988, Vol. 103, No. 4 589-595
© 1988 Japanese Biochemical Society
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Specific Binding of Mitochondrial Protein Precursors to Liposomes Containing Cardiolipin1
* Department of Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medical Science Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812
** Department of Biology, Kyushu University Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka 812
*** Department of Health Chemistry,The University of Tokyo Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113
In vitro synthesized precursors of several mitochondrial proteins, including P-450(SCC), adrenodoxin, and malate dehydrogenase, bound to liposomes prepared from mitochondrial phospholipids, but not to those from microsomal phospholipids. When liposomes were prepared from various pure phospholipids, adrenodoxin precursor was bound only to the liposomes that contained cardiolipin. The liposomes containing other phospholipids did not show the binding affinity for the precursor. The binding was observed only with the precursor peptides of adrenodoxin and malate dehydrogenase, and their mature forms were not bound to the liposomes. The binding of the precursors was dependent on the concentration of cardiolipin in the liposomes. Liposomes containing various cardiolipin derivatives with modified polar head groups showed very different binding affinity for adrenodoxin precursor, suggesting the importance of the structure of the polar head of the cardiolipin molecule. Two or three positively charged amino acid residues in the extension peptide of P-450(SCC) precursor were replaced by neutral amino acid residues by site-directed mutagenesis. The mutated P-450(SCC) precursors did not bind to the liposomes containing cardiolipin. The results indicated that mitochondrial protein precursors have specific affinity for cardiolipin, and the affinity was due to the interaction between the extension peptides of the precursors and the polar head of the cardiolipin molecule.
1 This work was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan.
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